John of Bavaria

Jacoba of Bavaria

...to John of Touraine, who died two years later. Jacoba’s claim to succeed her father, who also died in 1417, was not recognized by the German king Sigismund, who instead supported her paternal uncle John of Bavaria.

John the Fearless

...personal participation as duke of Burgundy in major events outside France took place in 1408, when he led a Burgundian army to aid his beleaguered brother-in-law, the bishop of Liège, John of Bavaria, against the citizens of Liège, who were in open revolt. On the field of Othée, on Sept. 23, 1408, the men of Liège were decisively defeated, and Burgundian...